Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the mor... Lees meer

Children's Play in Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers' careful studies of children's linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature... Lees meer

The Child Savage, 1890-2010

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations o... Lees meer

Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection ... Lees meer

Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel

Sandra Dinter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contempo... Lees meer

Heroism in the Harry Potter Series

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the ... Lees meer

Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914

Simon Sleight

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was 'perspiring juvenile humanity' with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city's inhabitan... Lees meer

Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protagonis... Lees meer

History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature

Jackie C Horne

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to... Lees meer

Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protagonis... Lees meer

The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain

Lucy Pearson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Lucy Pearson's lively and engaging book examines British children's literature during the period widely regarded as a 'second golden age'. Drawing ext... Lees meer

Space and Place in Children's Literature, 1789 to the Present

Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, Malini Roy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes... Lees meer

Male Homosexuality in Children's Literature, 1867-1918

Eric L Tribunella

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• In his 1908 cultural and historical study of homosexuality titled The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life , Edward Ir... Lees meer

Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Bringing together children's literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of ... Lees meer

Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860

Megan a Norcia

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thri... Lees meer

Performing Contemporary Childhoods

Bryoni Trezise

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how children... Lees meer

Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young

Mary Hilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and r... Lees meer

Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960

• Hardcover | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• This volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring conceptions of children and chil... Lees meer

Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys' Adventure Novel

Michelle Elleray

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveye... Lees meer

The Child Savage, 1890-2010

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations o... Lees meer

Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection ... Lees meer

Children's Games in the New Media Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collec... Lees meer

Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play

Michelle Beissel Heath

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children's and family card, boa... Lees meer

The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain

Lucy Pearson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Pearson examines British children's literature during the period widely regarded as a 'second golden age', giving particular attention to children's b... Lees meer